Yana Buhrer Tavanier

Yana is also the co-founder of TimeHeroes.org, the largest volunteer platform in Bulgaria; and has a background as an award-winning investigative journalist. She has a BA in communications and MA in political science from Sofia University, along with Еxecutive Еducation at Harvard University, Yale University, Oxford University, and NTU-Singapore. She is a TED Senior Fellow, a Fulbright Scholar, a WEF Young Global Leader, an Allianz Foundation Fellow, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and was named one of 50 people who will change the world in WIRED’s Smart List 2012.